{"id":154121,"date":"2022-12-10T22:11:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T22:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/guillermo-del-toro-was-an-animator-until-a-pooping-burglar-derailed-him\/"},"modified":"2022-12-10T22:11:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T22:11:18","slug":"guillermo-del-toro-was-an-animator-until-a-pooping-burglar-derailed-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/guillermo-del-toro-was-an-animator-until-a-pooping-burglar-derailed-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo del Toro was an animator \u2014 until a pooping burglar derailed him"},"content":{"rendered":"
Guillermo del Toro, the Mexican director of Pan’s Labyrinth<\/em>, The Shape of Water<\/em>and Pacific Rim<\/em>, has always been an animator. thigh Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio<\/em>, out now on Netflix, is his first animated feature film, arriving 30 years into his career. Things could have been very different. Back before he made his debut with the 1992 vampire movie Cronos<\/em>del Toro was actually prepping a full-length stop-motion animated movie. <\/p>\n \u201cI started on animation,\u201d del Toro tells Polygon. \u201cThe earliest Super 8s I did were animation. I had an animation and effects company for 15 years. We did commercials. I started the stop-motion movement in my city. I taught stop-motion, and I was preparing a stop-motion movie before Cronos<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Then disaster struck. \u201cMy brother, my then-girlfriend and I, we fabricated 120 puppets in clay. We did the sets. And one night, we went to dinner and to a movie. And when we came back, our place had been burglarized. They had destroyed every puppet, they had pooped and peed on the floor. And I turned around \u2014 it was three years of work \u2014 and I said, ‘I’m gonna do Cronos<\/em>. I’m gonna do a live-action movie.’\u201d<\/p>\n